Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2

[Spock]

New in today:

Great electronic music, with an excellent surround-mix and great fidelty

Almost forgot - there are some nice bass here too

 

[fredblue]

Thanks Fred, this is very helpful. Based on your description of the true surround mix, and careful listening with DPLII, the BGO release seems to have SQ encoding.

DPLII with the BGO Pure Music release results in a very open sound field. A lot of activity in the surrounds and lateral extension in the fronts. No explicit circular panning in track 1, but there is subtle movement of individual instruments front and back throughout.

Track 2 with the guitar solo is exactly as you describe except I hear the guitar in SR insteaf of SL. You mentioned that placement with DPLII may not be exact. I'll take it though!

Final track: WOW. Always my favorite Chase track. Panning for sure, especially the synthesizer - very strong as it moves about the room.

I'm with you regarding the quality of this album. It really is "pure music". Surround or not, it represents one of the best integrations of brass, synthesizer, guitar, bass, and percussion I've ever heard. Maybe I'm prejudiced because of my personal relationship to the music. To me Chase's musical and technical growth across the three studio albums was dramatic. There was a version of MacArthur Park (saw it live) destined for the next album. Imagine what an incredible album that would have been if not for tragedy.

Yes, I'd pay dearly for a DV Chase release

Thanks again,
Steve (sbrom)
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P.S. - I also have an earlier CD release (1997) with both Ennea and Pure Music. As far as I can tell it has the SQ encoding too. It is mastered 9 dB louder than the BGO release. Doesn't sound near as good as BGO.

You're welcome Steve

that's great to hear thanks and even more encouraging news after fizzywiggs41's post with the same conclusion on the same BGO Chase CD set here at QQ the other day!
fwiw I have that BGO set on its way in the mail from Dodax on Amazon as we speak, so I'll be able to route it thru the S.Master soon and report back to QQ with the lowdown!
if in the meantime you'd like a little sample clip of 30 seconds or something from the decoded SQ LP to give you a flavour of the panning etc just let me know.

 

[fizzywiggs41]

A lot of these 5.1 DVDA cuts are very good in surround for a Siverline Sampler .

But "On The Road Again " by Canned Heat is sooooooooo very good .Best cut I think .









Those early DVDA'S from Siverline (first 2 yrs) are worth owning .

 

[fredblue]

New in today:

Great electronic music, with an excellent surround-mix and great fidelty

Almost forgot - there are some nice bass here too

the LFE looks interesting.. the centre channel not so much..

unless I've got the channel assignment wrong!?

here it is = 1 is FL, 2 is C, 3 is FR, 4 is LFE, 5 is SL, 6 is SR.. correct?

 

[fizzywiggs41]

Nirvana MTV Unplugged

Super Surround by ELLIOTT SCHEINER , nuff said .

(I dig the way E.S. gave ample volume to the Cellist--She does it quite well btw)











This is a MUST OWN DVD in Dts with.superior surround and performance . :sun

 

[fizzywiggs41]

Primus-Sailing The Seas Of Cheese


Both blu-ray and dvd. I'm a big fan of Tom Waits so I luv that he's the featured vocalist on "Tommy The Cat ".

 

[Spock]

the LFE looks interesting.. the centre channel not so much..

unless I've got the channel assignment wrong!?

here it is = 1 is FL, 2 is C, 3 is FR, 4 is LFE, 5 is SL, 6 is SR.. correct?

You are correct sir!

 

[fizzywiggs41]

Procol Harum


BBC LIVE in QUAD (SQ) and what a great disc.V.G. QUAD !!

The Long Goodbye in Dolby surround , live w/ Robin Trower another great disc .

Procol were well known for their live usually with symphony concert performances.

 

[fredblue]

You are correct sir!

great stuff, thanks! :upthumb

(glad that channel assignment works out ok for you with your PC surround setup, mine is too inflexible so if I output Channel 2 as Centre and Channel 3 as Front Right I would get Front Right channel info in the Centre speaker and Centre channel info in the Front Right speaker! :yikes )

 

[fizzywiggs41]

A.F.'S "Collection" in SACD


First cut is one of my favorite Dylan songs from "Nashville Skyline" .

This SACD-QUAD SAMPLER is worth owning for the eclectic selections .

 

[fredblue]

A.F.'S "Collection" in SACD


First cut is one of my favorite Dylan songs from "Nashville Skyline" .

This SACD-QUAD SAMPLER is worth owning for the eclectic selections .



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great selection fizzy..! :upthumb
my only gripe (if its even that) is that I wish AF had done more such Surround compilations..
(and of course more Surround SACD titles.. maybe one day.. still immensely thankful for the quality and quantity of what they did deliver in Surround.. perhaps I'm being greedily unrealistic but with Quad and 5.1 music its never enough!! haha.. )

 

[Spock]

great stuff, thanks! :upthumb

(glad that channel assignment works out ok for you with your PC surround setup, mine is too inflexible so if I output Channel 2 as Centre and Channel 3 as Front Right I would get Front Right channel info in the Centre speaker and Centre channel info in the Front Right speaker! :yikes )

I don't assign any speakers - I let Foobar and Windows take care of it - no problems.

But I think the channel display order in foobar changes from time to time - but the right speakers always get the correct signal.

 

[fredblue]

I don't assign any speakers - I let Foobar and Windows take care of it - no problems.

But I think the channel display order in foobar changes from time to time - but the right speakers always get the correct signal.

interesting.. bloody clever that Foobar and Windows! VLC on my Mac throws a hissy fit if the channel assignment of a 5.1 file isn't 1=FL/2=FR/3=C/4=LFE/5=SL/6=SR
(or 1=FL/2=FR/3=Silent or blank Centre/4=Silent or blank LFE/5=SL/6=SR when playing a 4.0 Quad).

in the Mac OS Audio MIDI Setup preferences I can reassign output channels and/or put it into Quadraphonic mode (cool huh! ) for such naughty disc rips/files but its a right old faff and I'm getting so lazy these days it scares me!

 

[user 1679]

King Crimson - Thrak (Thrak Box, Blu-ray 1)

 

[Spock]

interesting.. bloody clever that Foobar and Windows! VLC on my Mac throws a hissy fit if the channel assignment of a 5.1 file isn't 1=FL/2=FR/3=C/4=LFE/5=SL/6=SR
(or 1=FL/2=FR/3=Silent or blank Centre/4=Silent or blank LFE/5=SL/6=SR when playing a 4.0 Quad).

in the Mac OS Audio MIDI Setup preferences I can reassign output channels and/or put it into Quadraphonic mode (cool huh! ) for such naughty disc rips/files but its a right old faff and I'm getting so lazy these days it scares me!

I haven't experinced files with wrong channel assignment so far. And it is no different if I play 4.0, 2.0 or 5.0 or 5.1 files and so on - it always perform like it should.

For video with multichannel I use MPC-HC mediaplayer that delivers bitstream.

I have no Mac experience, I like to build my own pc's - hope you get your Mac to behave!! :yikes

 

[fredblue]

I haven't experinced files with wrong channel assignment so far. And it is no different if I play 4.0, 2.0 or 5.0 or 5.1 files and so on - it always perform like it should.

For video with multichannel I use MPC-HC mediaplayer that delivers bitstream.

I have no Mac experience, I like to build my own pc's - hope you get your Mac to behave!! :yikes

I'm very happy for you Mr.S
no Mac experience? oh you don't know what you're missing!
..i should spank my badly behaved Mac.. but it seems like so much effort! I must get that new AIX disc you have there (rogue channels and all) it looks interesting!

 

[Spock]

I'm very happy for you Mr.S
no Mac experience? oh you don't know what you're missing!
..i should spank my badly behaved Mac.. but it seems like so much effort! I must get that new AIX disc you have there (rogue channels and all) it looks interesting!

Yes, you should - I recommend it, great music and strange channel patterns - something for everyone :banana:

Track 7, "55 2"

This great album from JMK reminds me of the musical styles of Vangelis and John Carpenter - could call the album Chariots of Halloween? :banana:

 

[fredblue]

Yes, you should - I recommend it, great music and strange channel patterns - something for everyone :banana:

Track 7, "55 2"

This great album from JMK reminds me of the musical styles of Vangelis and John Carpenter - could call the album Chariots of Halloween? :banana:

I'm working on buying it (its not easy on the cheap!) did you import your copy of the JMK BD-A into Europe from the U.S.A.?

rather unusual looking LFE (if that's what Channel 4 is) it appears to be more active than the Centre channel in your pic there and maybe contains more than just low frequency band limited info. always dangerous "waveform whispering" but until I can get to hear the disc in 5.1 I'll just say its an interesting mix by the looks of it and leave it at that

 

[4-earredwonder]

I just opened my Kraftwerk 3D boxset. Another sumptuous, heavy as heck coffee table hard~covered book [although I have NO coffee table].

First impression: Excellent [as expected]. GREAT use of surrounds, deep bass and the accompanying videos are a nice touch [will watch it in 3D later this evening].

Nice to finally have these 70's electronica albums in pristine 5.1 [& Dolby Atmos] audio.

Kudos to all involved.

 

[GOS]

ELO 1973 Quad

Average to poor fidelity I guess. Surround is average...

But, still like it.